ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,688, issued on June 30, was assigned to RESMED PTY LTD (Bella Vista, Australia).
"Heat and moisture exchanger for patient interface" was invented by Kevin Kai Yun Wong (Sydney) and James McKensey Bencke (Sydney).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient interface may include: a plenum chamber pressurisable to a therapeutic pressure; a seal-forming structure connected to the plenum chamber, the plenum chamber being constructed and arranged to seal with a region of the patients face; a positioning and stabilising structure configured to provide a force to hold the seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position on the pati...